This essay considers the relation between two fundamentally different notions of place—the Greek concept of χώρα and the Japanese concept of basho 場所—in an effort to address the question of a possible “other beginning” to philosophy by rethinking the relation between nature and the elemental. Taking up a cross-cultural comparative approach, ancient through contemporary Eastern and Western sources are considered. Central to this endeavor is reflection on the concept of the between through an engagement between, on the one hand, Plato, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Edward Casey, and John Sallis, and on the other, Eihei Dōgen, Nishida Kitarō, and Watsuji Tetsurō.

本文认为地方-的χώρα的希腊概念的两个根本不同的概念和日观之间的关系芭蕉场所-in努力重新思考自然和之间的关系，以应对可能的“其他开始”哲学的问题元素的。采取跨文化的比较方法，考虑古代到当代东方和西方资源。这项工作的核心是一方面通过柏拉图，马丁·海德格尔，雅克·德里达，爱德华·凯西和约翰·萨利斯之间的交往，另一方面是伊赫伊·多根，西田北和郎和和uji之间的交往来反思两者之间的概念。Tetsurō。